Bozar Talks & Debates

10/02/2023

Pitch now! 🚨

We are looking for journalists, writers, photographers, illustrators, artists and academics to untangle the crises affecting Europe today, and reflect on the choices we need to make moving forward.

02/02/2023

01/02/2023

Hello Dominique De Groen! 👋 Verstopt in de gangen van ons Paleis bevindt zich onze audiostudio.

Op vraag van Bozar liet ze zich inspireren door een van de kunstwerken van Hilma af Klint. Ontdek de tekst tijdens je bezoek aan onze Exhibition: Swedish Ecstasy.

Wil je liever de poëzie-performance live bijwonen? Dat kan! Tijdens onze Nocturnes zal Dominique De Groen tijdens verschillende sessies de tekst voordragen in een performance.

Neem je agenda en boek je tickets voor Dominique De Groen meets Hilma af Klint: occulte poëziesessie in de expo Swedish Ecstasy via bit.ly/TD_DeGroen

24/01/2023

20/01/2023

At the end of 2022 Tom Naegels won the first prize "Belangrijkste Boek van het jaar" with his latest "Nieuw België, een migratiegeschiedenis" (La nouvelle Belgique, une histoire de l'immigration) 📚 We read, we learned, we discussed and we invite you to do the same, 25 Januray via bit.ly/NieuwBelgiëNouvelleBruxelles
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Tom Naegels will be talking to Laura Nsengiyumva, a Brussels native sketching the realities of life for new Belgians past and present, who have helped to shape the Brussels (and Belgium) we know today. ⁠

🗓️ City Talk: new Belgium, new Brussels with Laura Nsengiyumva & Tom Naegels

19/01/2023

Hoog bezoek vandaag in Bozar! Rokus Hofstede était spécial guest de notre bookclub. Nous avons discuté un des best-sellers d'Annie Ernaux avec le traducteur Néerlandophone.

Le 1er février, nous organiserons un hommage à Annie Ernaux. Rokus Hofstede sera invité avec d'autres auteurs et une projection de film. Plus d'informations et billets via Hommage à Annie Ernaux + film screening ‘J'ai aimé vivre là' & bit.ly/TD_HomagetoErnaux

17/01/2023

Dans Se défendre : Une philosophie de la violence, la chercheuse présente une généalogie philosophique de l'autodéfense politique. « Un superbe retour à la vérité charnelle de la politique. » Le Monde

Elsa Dorlin est une figure importante du mouvement féministe en France. Dans ses cours de philosophie politique et sociale à l’Université Paris-VIII et dans ses ouvrages, elle pose une critique des notions de « sexe » et de « genre » et démontre l’oppression sexiste à l’œuvre dans notre société. Pour appuyer ses thèses, elle se réfère aux théories de Michel Foucault, ainsi qu’à des écrivains post-coloniaux comme Frantz Fanon.

Notez dans votre agenda: le 16 Mars elle sera à Bozar🗓️
🎫 bit.ly/TD_Dorlin

06/01/2023

“While black people of all classes are more likely to be arrested, harassed or murdered by the police than white people of the same class, bourgeois black people are much less at risk of this than are working-class black people. Tellingly, they are also much less at risk than are working-class white people. It is not minimising the system’s racism to recognise that the single most important variable in an individual’s risk of violence from the police, therefore, is class.”

Kenan Malik’s new book is a powerful argument for an anti-racist politics informed by class and solidarity, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh (via Counterfire) 👉 bit.ly/ReviewMalikNotSoBlackandWhite

is out now and Kenan Malik will be at Bozar 8 March. Do you want to meet him? Get your tickets now via bit.ly/TD_Malik

05/01/2023

“The figure of King Leopold II becomes the instrument of a biased and uncomfortable patriotism. The disappearance of the colonial discourse has as melting ice a subtile temporality; happening but invisible to the naked eye. This installation is a leap of faith in this change of mentality and an ode to the decolonizing forces behind it; activists, vandals, academics, and other citizens.” Zeye Laura Nsengiyumva on her artwork PeoPL

In 2018, you could see this installation during Nuit Blanche in Brussels. Kopano Maroga wrote the following opinion piece on it 👉 https://bit.ly/OpinionPeoPL

The artist in question is guest at Bozar on 25 January where she will be in conversation with Tom Naegels. This City Talk will focus on the migration history of Brussels.

🗓️City Talk: new Belgium, new Brussels with Laura Nsengiyumva & Tom Naegels
🎫bit.ly/NieuwBelgiëNouvelleBruxelles

21/12/2022

We have some good recommendations for you 🎁

Browse through the full programme on bit.ly/TalksDebates2223

See you in 2023!

14/12/2022

We had a great autumn, bringing people together and feeding them with tantalising insights!

Will you be present in such numbers again? 🥁 The following names are waiting for you on our calendar: Tom Naegels, Laura Nsengiyumva, Dominique De Groen, Vinciane Despret, Margrethe Vestager, Mark Leibovich, Elsa Dorlin, Jacques Rancière, Janina Ramirez, Live Magazine & many more!

Browse through the full programme on bit.ly/TalksDebates2223

12/12/2022

How big is your enthusiasm for good news? 🥳

Very big with us at least! This Wednesday, we will announce the new spring programme. 👀 Stay tuned!

📷 Rachel Cusk last month at Bozar

08/12/2022

Le lundi 12 décembre, à Bozar, le sociologue Rudi Laermans et le philosophe du droit Laurent de Sutter parleront de la vie culturelle à Bruxelles, qui brigue le titre de capitale européenne de la culture en 2030.

“Cultuur reduceren tot wat lokale animatie om ons sociaal weefsel te herstellen, is niet bepaald ambitieus.” Een voorproefje krijg je van BRUZZ 👉 https://bit.ly/bruzzlaermansdesutter

🗓️ Meet the Thinkers: Rudi Laermans & Laurent de Sutter
🎫 bit.ly/LaermansdeSutterBozar
📸Ivan Put

06/12/2022

🎥 Every year, Sabzian asks a guest to write a "State of Cinema". An invitation to reflect on what cinema means, could or should mean today. This year we welcome Chinese director Wang Bing who in addition, chose a film that resonates with that reflection: Stonewalling (2022) by Japanese-Chinese duo Huang Ji and Ryûji Otsuka.

18 December, Wang will come to recite his speech on the Bozar stage. But who's Wang Bing? 👉 bit.ly/RadarWangBing

🗓️ State of Cinema 2022 / Wang Bing
🎫 bit.ly/StateOfCinema2022-WangBing

📸 Film still from Stonewalling by Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka

05/12/2022

Gudrun De Geyter is er klaar voor! Zij gaat morgen (6 december) met Charlotte Mutsaers in gesprek. De grand dame van de Nederlandse letteren wordt morgen gehuldigd in Bozar omdat zij in 2020 de VUB-literatuurprijs won.

Kom jij ook voorbereid naar het event? Lees het mooie artikel met Mutsaers die dit weekend in De Standaard verscheen 👉 bit.ly/DSMutsaers

🗓️ Meet the Writer: Charlotte Mutsaers
🎫 bit.ly/MutsaersBozar

02/12/2022

ALLES VAN PLASTIC IS WEERBAAR

T’is jaren en jaren geleden dat
in een koninkrijk gelegen aan zee
ik een sluimerend kerkhof betrad
met een bos plastic tulpen mee
en die bloemen waren bestemd
voor de schilderbaron daar aan zee

James Ensor heette zijn graf
en de naam stond gebeiteld in steen
en ik stond genageld in het gras
met mijn bos plastic tulpen mee
want er zat een kat op de zerk
van dat graf gelegen aan zee

En die kat was gitzwart en jaloers
zoals iedereen wist daar aan zee
en zodra hij de kleurenpracht zag
had hij liefst met klauwen en bek
mijn prachtige flora ontvreemd
in de hoop: de wind neemt dit mee

Maar alles van kunststof is sterk
en ikzelf telde minsten voor tien
dus met mijn boeket sloeg ik terug
qua vrouwenkracht ongezien
de kat zeilde hoog door de lucht
en de wind werkte ongevraagd mee
zo verkaste het duivelse dier
naar het ondorp Katwijk aan Zee

Pas dan zijn wij onder elkaar
de schilderbaron en ik en terwijl
ik met uiterste zorg mijn kleurige
bloemenpracht schik en neerstrijk
tussen het plastic om mijn naam
te bikken in steen mijn naam
naast de zijne te bikken op die
grafzerk verkleurd door de zee
vaart er plots van onder de grond
een stem door me heen: neem mij mee
want bloemen verwelken en schepen
vergaan bij bosjes hier aan de zee
maar alles wat dood is blijft eeuwig
bestaan en leeft levenslang met u mee

Uit: Dooier op drift (2012) p. 14,15

Wist je dat ook Charlotte Mutsaers muziek maakt? Op haar 75ste maakte ze haar debuut als zangeres. Rikkelrak is het slotstuk van de poëzie-muziek-trilogie op de muziek van Louis Gauthier. Beluister het volledige album via Spotify: https://bit.ly/RikkelrakSpotify

🗓️ 6 december in Bozar: Meet the Writer: Charlotte Mutsaers
🎫 bit.ly/MutsaersBozar

29/11/2022

Stella Gaitano (Khartoum, 1979) is a writer from South Sudan. She is known for her short stories, which often deal with the harsh living conditions of people from South Sudan. Since the country's independence in 2011, she also writes about life in her new nation.

Sudan and South Sudan are home to a number of great writers who are rarely heard here. Tomorrow (30 November), Bozar brings them together for a special evening. The authors will read from their work and talk to Xavier Luffin, translator and professor of Arabic literature at ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles.

🗓️ Literature Talk: Writers from Black Arabia
🎫 bit.ly/WritersBlackArabiaBozar

24/11/2022

What is more immaterial than artificial intelligence? 🌀 Nevertheless, there are artists who give it shape.

Artificial intelligence is a concept that scientists started to describe before really programming it. Simultaneously, authors of fiction started to give it form without any constraints. Finally, there are digital artists who, in the field of art, confront the public with artificial intelligence through generative or interactive artworks.

💜 Welcome to the 2nd edition of The Future of Living, the annual event at Bozar focusing on AI and how to live with it.

Be inspired by AI generated texts, images, comics and art 📅 From 2 till 3 Dec.'22
Discover the workshop, discussions, installations via bit.ly/TFOL-AIforAll

23/11/2022

According to The Guardian, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin is one of the most important writers from Sudan. The author had to flee for his life and now lives in exile in France. Although his work is banned in his homeland, it is enormously popular and widely read. In 2015, an English translation of The Jungo: Stakes of the Earth and Birth was published.

Sudan and South Sudan are home to a number of great writers who are rarely heard here. 30 November, Bozar brings them together for a special evening. The authors will read from their work and talk to Xavier Luffin, translator and professor of Arabic literature at ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles.

🗓️ Literature Talk: Writers from Black Arabia
🎫 bit.ly/WritersBlackArabiaBozar

📷 Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin © Patrice Nordman

18/11/2022

'We love streets, squares and façades.'

Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan opened their own practice in Zürich, in 2007. Their work focuses mainly on collective housing and individual homes: they are usually commissioned for projects in remote neighbourhoods that lack a clearly defined history or identity. They aim to design distinctive facades that emerge from the ambient anonymity. Together with A+ Architecture in Belgium, we are delighted to host a conference by Swiss practice Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten.

🗓️ See you at Bozar on 22 November A+ Lecture by Lütjens Padmanabhan
🎫 bit.ly/LecturebyLütjensPadmanabhan

📷 House in Binningen, located in a suburb of Basel, photographed by Walter Mair.

17/11/2022

Belgian artist Ilse D'Hollander died in 1997 at the age of just 29, lonely and full of doubts about her abilities. Her work is gradually being discovered worldwide. Rachel Cusk also appreciates her work. For the cover of her new book Second Place, she chose an artwork by Ilse D'Hollander.

This latest book by Rachel Cusk is a psychodrama about a couple and a well-known painter who moves in with them, with disruptive consequences. At Bozar, Cusk will discuss her work with Nicky Aerts (known from Klara) and how art can both save and destroy us.

🗓️ 24 November at Bozar Meet the Writer: Rachel Cusk
🎫 https://bit.ly/CuskBozar

15/11/2022

"Les inégalités, ce n’est pas que l’accès financier. La gratuité des soins de première ligne, comme en Angleterre, où les inégalités sont encore plus grandes, c’est un leurre. Et un leurre qui coûte beaucoup d’argent, qu’on enlève ailleurs. Au contraire, réduisons le budget des soins de santé - en constante augmentation - et affectons cet argent là où il aura un impact plus important sur la santé : l’accès au logement, l’éducation, l’alimentation, les conditions de travail, Et dans une meilleure prévention, avec de plus gros moyens." Myriam De Spiegelaere pour La Libre.

Myriam De Spiegelaere a consacré sa carrière à la lutte contre les inégalités sociales en matière d’accès aux soins de santé. Après sa présentation elle sera jointe avec Pablo Nicaise (spécialiste des questions de santé mentale à l'UCL) et Dennis Mannaerts (directeur de l'ASBL Cultures & Santé) pour un débat autour de la santé.

🗓️ Demain (16.11) à Bozar City Talk : Inégalités sociales de santé en Région bruxelloise
🎫bit.ly/CityTalkBrusselshealthcare

🤝 Brussels Academy